Paramount Networks UK & Australia

Paramount Networks UK & Australia, formerly ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia, is a division of Paramount Skydance Corporation launched on 14 January 2020. It is based in London, England, with a local office in Sydney, Australia.^[1]

Paramount Networks UK & Australia

Formerly	ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia (2020–2022)
Company type	Division
Industry	Television
Founded	14 January 2020; 5 years ago (2020-01-14)
Headquarters	London, England
Area served	United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand
Products	Television channels
Parent	Paramount International Networks
Subsidiaries	Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited Paramount Australia & New Zealand
Website	paramountanz.com.au (Australia) paramount-mediahub.co.uk (UK)

History

On 31 October 2022, Paramount Networks UK & Australia acquired the remaining stake in Nickelodeon UK Ltd. including its Nickelodeon-branded channels from its partner Sky, bringing the British Nickelodeon channel under Paramount Networks UK & Australia's control as Sky was planning to launch its in-house children's channel Sky Kids as owning Nickelodeon UK would have restricted Sky from launching it.^[2]

On 22 June 2023, Paramount Networks UK & Australia announced its rebranding of its Australian free-to-air television channel 10 Shake under the Nickelodeon brand as the unit had brought the Nickelodeon name in-house and added Nickelodeon content on free-to-air linear television for the first time with them ending its long-standing partnership with Foxtel for the pay-TV channel of the same name as it chose to shutter the pay-TV channel alongside Nick Jr., however the pay-TV channel continued operating on Fetch TV and Sky in New Zealand while the rebranded free-to-air channel would bring all of Nickelodeon's programming under the FTA channel.^[3][4]

In October 2025 when Paramount Networks UK & Australia's parent Paramount Global merged with David Ellison's media entertainment Skydance Media into forming Paramount Skydance two months prior in August of that year, Paramount Networks UK & Australia announced that it would close five of its MTV-branded UK music pay-TV channels which consists of MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live at the end of December 2025 due to the company's restructuring policy.^[5]

Units

UK	Australia and New Zealand
Local free-to-air
Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited (UK only): 5 Milkshake! 5Action[6][7] 5Select 5Star 5USA	Network Ten Pty Limited (Australia only): Network 10 Sydney, Northern NSW & Gold Coast, Southern NSW & ACT Melbourne and Regional Victoria Brisbane and Regional Queensland Adelaide Perth 10 Drama 10 Comedy Nickelodeon Gecko TV
Pay TV networks
Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland) Nick Jr. (UK & Ireland) Nicktoons (UK & Ireland) Nick Jr. Too (UK & Ireland) MTV (UK & Ireland) Joint venture with Sky Group: Comedy Central (UK & Ireland) Comedy Central Extra (Europe) Joint venture with AMC Networks International UK: True Crime True Crime Xtra Legend Legend Xtra
Other properties
Paramount+ 5 (streaming service)	Paramount+ (Australia) 10 (streaming service) with Pluto TV (catch-up)
Former assets
5Spike Club MTV CBS Justice MTV 80s MTV 90s MTV Base MTV Classic MTV Hits MTV Live MTV Music MTV OMG MTV Rocks VH1 Smithsonian Channel	CMT replaced by revival of CMC)[8][9] Nickelodeon[a] Nick Jr. Comedy Central[10] NickMusic MTV Australia & New Zealand[b] MTV Hits Australia & New Zealand[b] MTV Music (replaced by revival of MTV Hits) Club MTV[b] MTV Classic (replaced by MTV 80s) MTV 80s MTV 90s MTV 00s Spike Spree TV (50%) VH1 Australia (replaced by MTV Classic)

See also

• Pluto TV
• Nickelodeon
• Noggin

Notes

1. in Australia, branded as Nick to differentiate it from the free-to-air channel of the same name
2. localised feed replaced by a time-shifted version of the European feed in 2023.^[11]